April 2, 2010

30 comments:

Ha. heard this on Boortz this morning. At least he admitted he didn't know! And as usual, confuses the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution. And as usual, ran away when his constituents got him in a corner. Granted, the constituent called him a liar but it was silly and cowardly to run.

McCain had that moment on Imus when he said he preferred clean government over so-called free speech; and came on the next week to explain that the Constitution of course was the most important thing to him.

Reverence to the Constitution is boilerplate that you're required to say, like the pledge of allegiance, to prove you're not subversive.

Politics doesn't actually consider it in the deal making, except occasionally as a thought about what the courts might do and how to finesse tham.

The complaint has to go through the court. Congress is expected to act the way it acts.

I actually felt sympathy for him. I did not like the way he was being hectored. When an exchange gets that heated a gaffe is much more likely. He was getting emotional and it looked more like a verbal slip up in the heat of the moment than a considered opinion. As far as I'm concerned it was "gotcha" politics. He looked like a sincere guy who simply had different ideas about how to address a difficult problem.

Health insurance is a problem. Sometimes a strict constructionist interpretation of the Constitution flies in the face of simple humanity (remember the civil rights laws).

Two good videos today, this sleazy Illinois idiot and that bimbo who made us feel so good knowning that she too will also be taxed, because she's quiet wealthy.

I remember the Ferraro/Bush debate where Ferraro had this sneering elitist suburban Mom bitch stuff, bragging about her accountants and lawyers and he great she was...

Those lefties love to have great stuff. That's on of the many peculiar personality traits I've noticed in lefties.

But you guys see what you did wrong. You had all that fun talking about how great Communism is and how we need egalitarianism altruism out of everyone, and now YOU GET TO FIND OUT. You're gonna get fucked just like the rest of us...it's not a little cocktail party light conversation.

"Health insurance is a problem. Sometimes a strict constructionist interpretation of the Constitution flies in the face of simple humanity (remember the civil rights laws)."

"Strict constructionist" interpretation, Sloppy deconstructionist interpretation, there is absolutely NOTHING in the Constitution or its amendments that declares "health insurance" a right, nor is there anything to suggest that citizens should be compelled by law to purchase products from private corporations. It. Ain't. In. There.

It's "simple humanity" that's gotten us in the hole we're in. I'm tired of liberty and sound governance being made casualties of some mushy-headed idea of compassion. I'd rather not have my compassion extracted at gunpoint.

In defense of the Congressman, the Declaration of Independence is one of our sacred texts and is, therefore, by extension part of our Constitution......I objected to his giving anecdotal evidence of the crippling bills of a sick child. It seemed a manipulative argument to make. He was standing on a large mound of bullshit and claiming the moral high ground. There are other people who will suffer because of this bill. They will wait longer, or have their treatment delayed or denied, or any of a number of other scenarios that are acted out in countries with national health care. Don't hold your breath waiting for the Congressman to shed a tear for them.....All politics is local, but the health care bill is local to the point of being personal.

He was asked a simple question about the constitutional authority to force people to buy health insurance which he would not/could not answer. I feel no sympathy for him or any other congressperson who is this stupid. They have been screwing us to the wall and running the country into the ground. They deserve what they get.

"For the next 24 years Hare worked as an aide to Evans, assisting the Congressman primarily on constituent issues and labor problems. During his tenure as an aide to Evans, Phil Hare oversaw the closings of Case International Harvestor plant in East Moline[2], and the Maytag plant in Galesburg[3]. The closings of these major businesses and many others resulted in a loss of more than 2,200 jobs in the 17th district. In the last few years of Evans' time in Congress, Hare attended several speaking engagements and even debated Evans' opponents in 2002 and 2004 because of the Congressman's Parkinsons disease, which has often prevented Evans from participating in the engagements."

Every once in a while a liberal will forget himself and honestly talk about his actual motivations and political beliefs. This is just such a case. He is not one bit different than 90 percent of his Democrat peers who believe the US Constitution is a burden and hindrance to their goals of statist utopia.

Uh, my speakers are out so I can't watch the Youtube, but if the transcript is right then the only thing he was wrong about is that the pursuit of happiness bit is actually in the Declaration of Independence rather than the Constitution. A bit of a venial sin, isn't it?

There is no "debate" here and yes it was taken out of context. What was the point of the question? "if it isn't in the constitution then it can't happen"...is that the dumbass question? You want to be locked into the 1780s for the rest of your life?

And it isn't a debate when one persons says something, the other person responds and person #1 says well, you're lying. Then the debate is about lying not about the facts.

You write wing fools are just that. Fools. You have nothing. You bring on nothing. You "debate" like a kid and frankly this guy was just a roaring asshole.